BIBLIOGRAPHY

  This is a partial list of reference materials on Fort Ross, Russian America and the Native inhabitants of California and Alaska. Many more titles are available in the Fort Ross Library and Bookstore.

       Titles marked * are out of print but available in the library.
Titles marked ~  are especially useful to teachers.

  Alaska Geographic Society. Russian America, Vol.26, No.4. Alaska Geographic. Anchorage. 1999.

* Alekseev, A.I. The Odyssey of a Russian Scientist: I.G. Voznesenskii in Alaska, California and Siberia. Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska.  

~ Alekseev, A.I. THE DESTINY OF RUSSIAN AMERICA 1741-1867. Edited by R.A. Pierce. Translated by Marina Ramsay. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska. 1990.

   Arlen, Karen W. et. al. They Came Singing—Songs of California's History. Calicanto Associates, 1995.  

Blomkvist, E.E. A RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA AND ALASKA, 1839-1849. The Drawings of I. G. Voznesenskii. In Collections of the Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography, Vol. XIII. Leningrad. 1951. Translated by Basil Dmytryshyn and E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan. In Oregon Historical Quarterly, pp. 101-170. June 1972.

Chamisso, Adelbert von. THE ALASKA DIARY OF ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO: NATURALIST ON THE KOTZEBUE VOYAGE 1815-1818. Translated by Robert Fortuine. Cook Inlet Historical Society, Anchorage, Alaska. 1986.

Chamisso, Adelbert von. A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE ROMANZOV EXPLORING EXPEDITION IN THE YEARS 1815-1818. IN THE BRIG "RURIK," CAPTAIN OTTO VON KOTZEBUE. Translated and edited by Henry Kratz. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 1986.

Chaussonnet, Valerie. Crossroads of Alaska: Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Arctic Studies Center. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1995.

*Chernych, E.H. "Agriculture of Upper California." The Pacific Historian, Winter 1967, 10-28.

~Chevigny, Hector, Lord of Alaska: The Story of Baranov and the Russian Adventure. Binford & Mort, Portland, Oregon. 1971.

~Chevigny, Hector, Russian America: The Great Alaskan Venture. 1741-1867. Binford & Mort, Portland, Oregon. 1992.

Crowell, Aron L.; Amy F. Steffian; Gordon L. Pullar eds. Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. 2001.  

Dawson, Glen, editor. LETTERS FROM FORT ROSS, MONTEREY, SAN PEDRO AND SANTA BARBARA BY AN INTELLIGENT BOSTONIAN. Early California Travel Series, XLVIII. Los Angeles, California. 1959.

Dmytryshyn, Basil; E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughn; Thomas Vaughn, eds. The Russian-American Colonies: 1768-1867. Oregon Historical Society Press, 1989.  

Dridzo, A.D. & R.V. Kinzhalov. RUSSIAN AMERICA—FROM THE PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF MISSIONARIES, WORLD TRAVELERS, SAILORS, RESEARCHERS AND OTHER EYEWITNESSES. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Science, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg, Russia. Moisl Publications, Moscow. 1994.

Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard. A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826-1829. August Fruge and Neal Harlow, trans., eds. University of California Press. 1999.

Essig, E.O.; Adele Ogden; Clarence John DuFour. Fort Ross, California: Outpost of Russian Alaska, 1812-1841. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1991.  

Farris, Glenn J. THE BODEGA MIWOK AS SEEN BY M.T. TIKHANOV IN 1818. Paper presented at California Indian Conference. UCLA. 1995.

Farris, Glenn J. FATHOMING FORT ROSS in Historical Archaeology, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 93-99. 1983.

Farris, Glenn J. RECOGNIZING INDIAN FOLK HISTORY AS REAL HISTORY, A FORT ROSS EXAMPLE in American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 471-480. 1989.

Fedorova, Svetlana G. Ethnic Processes in Russian America. Antoinette Shalkop, trans. Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum. 1975.  

Fedorova, Svetlana G. THE RUSSIAN POPULATION IN ALASKA AND CALIFORNIA LATE 18^TH CENTURY-1867. Translated by Richard A. Pierce & Alton S. Donnelly. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1973.

Fedorova, Svetlana G. RUSSKAIA AMERIKA I TOT’MA V SUD’BE IVANA KUSKOVA in Problemy istorii i etnografii Ameriki, pp. 232-233. Nauka, Moscow. 1979. Partial translation, RUSSIAN AMERICA AND TOTMA IN THE LIFE OF IVAN KUSKOV, available in the Fort Ross Library in Portraits of Prominant Russians. Compiled and translated by Stephen Watrous. Fort Ross, 1990s.

*Fitzhugh, William W. & Aron Crowell. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1988.  

Fitzhugh, William W. & Valerie Chaussonnet. ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE NORTH PACIFIC RIM. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1994.

Ford, Corey. Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist George Stellar and the Russian Exploration of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Books, Anchorage, Alaska 1995.  

~Fort Ross Interpretive Association. FORT ROSS. Fort Ross. 1998 (basic history of Fort Ross)

Fort Ross Interpretive Association. FORT ROSS INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER (various articles 1988-1998). Fort Ross, California 95450.

Fort Ross Interpretive Association. Fort Ross Cookbook. Fort Ross. 1994

Fortuine, Robert. The Alaska Diary of Adelbert Von Chamiso: Naturalist on the Kotzebue Voyage 1815-1818. Cook Inlet Historical Society, Anchorage, Alaska, 1986.

*Gibson, James R. Imperial Russia in Frontier America. Oxford University Press, New York, 1976.

~Gibson, James R. Otter Skins, Boston Ships, & China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast 1785-1841. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1992.  

Gibson, James R. RUSSIA IN CALIFORNIA, 1833: REPORT OF GOVERNOR WRANGELL in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp.205-215. 1969.

*Golovnin, Vasilii M.  Around the World on the Kamchatka 1817-1819. Ella Lury Wiswell, trans. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1979.  

~Golovnin, Vasilii M. VOYAGE OF THE SLOOP KAMCHATKA DURING THE YEARS 1817-1819. Edited by V. A. Divin, et al. Mysl’, Moscow. 1965. [Translated by Stephen Watrous for the Fort Ross Library.]

Haycox, Stephen W. & Mary Childers Mangusso. AN ALASKA ANTHOLOGY: INTERPRETING THE PAST. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1996.

Heizer, Robert F. Seven Early Accounts of the Pomo Indians and Their Culture. Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley. 1975.

Heizer, Robert F. &  Albert B. Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1980.                          

Hussey, John A. NOTES TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES RELATING TO FORT ROSS STATE HISTORIC PARK, CALIFORNIA. State of California, The Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation. Sacramento, CA. 1979.

~Istomin, Alexei A. The Indians at the Ross Settlement: According to the Censuses by Kuskov, 1820-1821. Fort Ross Interpretive Association. Fort Ross. 1992.

*Khlebnikov, K.T. Colonial Russian America Reports, 1817-1832. Basil Dmytryshyn & E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughn, trans. Oregon Historical Society, Portland. 1976.

~Khlebnikov, K.T. The Khlebnikov Archive: Unpublished Journal (1800-1837) and Travel Notes (1820,1822, And 1824). Leonid Shur, ed. John Bisk, trans. The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series, Vol. V. University of Alaska Press. 1990.  

Khlebnikov, K.T. NOTES ON RUSSIAN AMERICA PART I: NOVO-ARKHANGEL’SK. Compiled by Svetlana G. Fedorova. Translated by Serge LeComte & Richard A. Pierce. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska. 1994.

Kniffen, Fred B. "POMO GEOGRAPHY." University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, pp. 353-400. 1939.

Kostromitinov, Peter S. STATISTISCHE UND ETHNO-GRAPHISCHE NACHRICHTEN UEBER DIE RUSSISCHEN BESITZUNGEN AN DER NORDWESTKUESTE VON AMERIKA. Collected by F. P. von Wrangell. Edited by K. E. von Baer. Imperial Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 80-96, 1839. Partial translation, REMARKS ON THE INDIANS OF UPPER CALIFORNIA, available in the Fort Ross Library in Portraits of Prominant Russians. Compiled and translated by Stephen Watrous. Fort Ross, 1990s.

Kroeber, A.L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Dover Publications, New York. 1976.

Langdon, Steve J. Native People of Alaska. Greatland Graphics. Anchorage, Alaska, 1993.  

Laughlin, William S. ALEUTS: SURVIVORS OF THE LAND BRIDGE. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. 1980.

Liapunova, Roza G. ESSAYS ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE ALEUTS (AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY). Translated by Jerry Shelest. The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series, Vol. IX. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. 1996.

Lightfoot, Kent G.; Thomas A. Wake; Ann M. Schiff. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California. Vol. 1. Number 49. University of California Archaeological Research Facility. Berkeley, CA. 1991.

~Lightfoot, Kent G.; Thomas A. Wake; Ann M. Schiff, eds. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California, The Native Alaskan Neighborhood, A Multiethnic Community at Colony Ross. Vol. 2. Number 55. Contributions of the University of California, Archaeological Research Facility. Berkeley, CA. 1997.

Litke, Frederic P. A Voyage Around the World, 1826-1829: Vol. I: To Russian America and Siberia, 1826-1829. Renee Marshal, trans. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska. 1987.

Litke, Frederic P. [KALIFORNIIA, 4-28 SENTABRIA 1818 G.], from DNEVNIK, VEDENNEI VO VREMIA KRUGOSVETNOGO PLAVANIA NA SHLIUPE "KAMCHATKA" (California, September 8-28, 1818, from Diary written during the round-the-world voyage of the sloop "Kamchatka") in L. A. Shur, Beregam novogo sveta (To the Shores of the New World), pp.135-38, 152-63. Nauka, Moscow. 1975. Partial translation, ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO BODEGA BAY AND FORT ROSS, SEPTEMBER 1818, available in the Fort Ross Library. Translated by Stephen Watrous. Fort Ross, 1992.

Margolin, Malcolm. The Way We Lived—California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences. Heyday Books. Berkeley. 1981.

Margolin, Malcolm and Yolanda Montijo. Native Ways—California Indian Stories and Memories. Heyday Books. Berkeley. 1995.

Middleton, John. Clothing In Colonial Russian America: A New Look. The Limestone Press. Fairbanks, Alaska. 1996.

*Ogden, Adele. The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1941.

~Osborn, Sannie Kenton. Death in the Daily Life of the Ross Colony: Mortuary Behavior on Frontier Russian America. UMI Dissertation Services, 1997.

*Oswalt, Robert L. Kashaya Texts. U.C. Press, Berkeley, CA. 1964.

Paddison, Joshua, ed. A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books. Berkeley, California. 1999.  

Parkman, E. Breck. FORT AND SETTLEMENT—INTERPRETING THE PAST AT FORT ROSS STATE HISTORIC PARK in California History Vol. LXXV, No. 4. San Francisco, California. Winter 1996-1997.

Payeras, Mariano. WRITINGS OF MARIANO PAYERAS. Translated and edited by Donald Cutter. Bellerophon Books, Santa Barbara, California. 1995.

Pierce, Richard A. A History of the Russian American Company. Vol. 2, Documents. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario. 1979.

Pierce, Richard. A. Builders of Alaska: The Russian Governors 1818-1867. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario. 1986.  

Pierce, Richard A., editor. RUSSIA IN NORTH AMERICA: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2^ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RUSSIAN AMERICA. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska. 1990.

~Pierce, Richard A. Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1990.

Pierce, Richard A. Russian American Company—Correspondence of the Governors. Communications Sent: 1818. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario. 1984.  

Pullar, Gordon L. THE QIKERTARMIUT AND THE SCIENTIST: FIFTY YEARS OF CLASHING WORLD VIEWS IN RECKONING WITH THE DEAD. Edited by Tamara L. Bray & Thomas W. Killion, The Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1994.

Rickman, David W. The World of Fort Ross a Picture Book. California History Center. Cupertino, CA. 1998.

Riddell, Francis A. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ON THE FARALLON ISLANDS, CALIFORNIA. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey 32: 1-18. 1955.

Schander, Mary L. Songs in the Air—Music of Early California. Hammers and Picks Productions, 1994.

Shelikov, G.I. Voyage To America, 1783-1785. Marina Ramsey, trans. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1982

Smirnova, Galina. Fairy Tales Of Siberian Folks. (English and Russian text) Krasnoyarsk Vital Publishers. 1992

*Smith, Barbara Sweeetland & Redmond J. Barnett, eds. Russian America: The Forgotten Frontier. Washington State Historical Society. 1990.

Smith, Barbara Sweeetland. Science Under Sail—Russia's Great Voyages To America 1728-1867. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage. 2000.

Sturtevant, William C. & Robert F. Heizer, eds. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8 California. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1978.

Sturtevant, William C. & June Helm, eds. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 6 Subarctic. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1981.

Sturtevant, William C. & David Danas, eds. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 5 Arctic. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1984.

Sturtevant, William C. & Wayne Suttles, eds. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 7 Northwest. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1990.

*Tikhmenev, P.A. A History of the Russian-American Company. Richard Pierce & Alton S. Donnelly, trans. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1978.

Tikhmenev, P.A. A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY. Vol. 2, Documents. Edited by Richard A. Pierce and A.S. Donnelly. Translated by Dmitri Krenov. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario. 1979.

~Vallejo, Mariano G. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ROSS SETTLEMENT. Bancroft Manuscript Collection MS C-A53, pp. 98-112. Translator and editor Nicholas Del Cioppo. Paper submitted by Michael S. Tucker and Nicholas Del Cioppo for distribution at the Conference on Russian America, Sitka, Alaska. August 21-25, 1979.

Varjola, Pirjo. THE ETHOLEN COLLECTION. National Board of Antiquities, Helsinki, Finland. 1990.

Veniaminov, Ioann. NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF THE UNALASHKA DISTRICT. The Limestone Press, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1991.

Veniaminov, Ioann. Journals of the Priest Ioann Veniaminov in Alaska 1823 to 1836.  Kisslinger, Jerome , trans. The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series, Vol. VII. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. 1993.  

*Von Chamiso, Adelbert. A Voyage Around the World With the Romanzov Exploring Expedition in the Years 1815-1818 in the Brig Rurik, Captain Otto Von Kotzebue. Henry Kratz, trans., ed. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 1986.

Watrous, Stephen, compiler and translator. PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT RUSSIANS—MANAGERS AT ROSS and FOUNDER OF FORT ROSS—IVAN KUSKOV. Lecture notes, Fort Ross, 1990s.

Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, editor and translator. DUFLOT DE MOFRAS’ TRAVELS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. VOL.II. The Fine Arts Press, Santa Anna, California. 1937.

*Wrangell, Ferdinand Petrovich. Russian America Statistical and Ethnographic Information. Richard A. Pierce. ed. Mary Sadousk, trans. The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario. 1980.

  Vegetable Bibliography  

The Vegetable Bibliography  was compiled during background research on California’s agricultural history and through the development of the Ardenwood’s heirloom kitchen garden. The kitchen garden and Ardenwood Historic Farm are part of the interpretive program of the East Bay Regional Park District

Bean, Walton and Rawls, James. California, An Interpretive History. 1983. This popular introductory  text on California history gives an excellent overview of the subject.

Berg, Donald, editor. The Kitchen Gardener’s Guide. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1987. This is a fun little book filled with good advice, fun facts and useful information taken from 19th century garden books, journals and seed catalogs.

Fisher, Anne. Bears, Pirates and Silver Lace. 1944. A wonderful collection of stories  written for children based on real-life events during the mission, rancho and settler periods in California

Haughton, Claire Shaver. Green Immigrants: The Plants that Transformed America.  New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1978. A look at 89 plants, many  of them vegetables, which have changed the American landscape. The book is filled with plant history and delightful information.

Jelinek, Lawrence. Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture. 1979. A concise, thorough and easy to read account of the factors that shaped the development of California agriculture. Jelinek shows how early  events in the mission, rancho and gold rush days laid the groundwork for California’s emergence as an agribusines“empire”.

Vilmorin-Andrieux, MM. The Vegetable Garden. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. Originally published in 1855, this book has become a classic reference for the heirloom gardener. It is filled with descriptions, histories and culture for hundreds of vegetable varieties.

Whealy, Kent. The Garden Seed Inventory Decorah, Iowa: Seed Saver Publications, 1987. This book is an important reference for anyone looking for heirloom or non-hybrid vegetable seeds. It takes every vegetable, lists every  variety  and gives sources where they are available. This book saves you from going through 200 seed catalogs to find the variety  you are trying to find.